What is another word for machine guns?

Pronunciation: [məʃˈiːn ɡˈʌnz] (IPA)

Machine guns, also called automatic weapons, are firearms that can fire bullets continuously as long as their triggers are pressed. Synonyms for machine guns include submachine guns, assault rifles, automatic rifles, light machine guns, and heavy machine guns. Submachine guns are typically used for close-quarters combat, whereas assault rifles are commonly used by military forces due to their versatility in various combat scenarios. Automatic rifles, on the other hand, are mainly used for long-range engagements. Light machine guns are effective for providing suppressive fire, while heavy machine guns are mainly used for defensive purposes. These synonyms for machine guns have similar features and functions, but vary in size and specific use.

What are the hypernyms for Machine guns?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Machine guns

  • Two special agents at the front door pulled me outside. By that time, they had already had the house surrounded with loaded weapons, machine guns, shotguns... about 25 federal agents.
    Sherman Austin
  • Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
    John Leonard
  • Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.
    George Takei
  • Assault weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons --anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun-- can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.
    Josh Sugarmann
  • She didn't feel anything, no grief or remorse, though her heart was racing and her breath came in gasps. A shocky combat-high, that immortal rush that made men charge machine guns. So this was what the war-addicts came for.
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